Wednesday, March 28, 2012

HUE

Most of the day spent with guide and driver. Drove to Hue.
Lunch arranged by guide.  After lunch we left the restaurant to get back into the car.
"No, you now take cyclo"      What??

Two bicycle chairs.  Pedalers are scrubby looking, teeth missing   

We were pedaled thru the city  in the midst of heavy traffic (motor scooters, cars, other cyclos) along wide boulevards.  About 20 minutes. No sign of our guide or anything familiar.
 I kind of know where Bob is but can't make contact or
         see   him.
                                            Should I be scared?  
              NO     THIS IS FUN
  Stopped at the   FORBIDDEN CITY .   Ah, Bob is here too.

Where  is our guide??  Pedlars saying "Tip, tip"
What do we do now?? We do not have our passports or anything.  Everything is in our car.  What if this is a "set- up"?
      Too many movies and mystery books come to mind
                      Ridiculous      Really?
After about 10 minutes our guide appears, apologetic .....
There is preparation for a festival and the street is closed.

Experienced the Forbidden City with the guide.
   Huge, impressive and interesting.  A UNESCO site

Hot and tired we cut the tour short at 3:30 and went to the hotel.  The guide registered for us while we sat in a beautiful cool lounge and had a "welcome drink" .

It is now a morning later and I am on our large private patio.
Bob made coffee in our room and we sit here looking at the Perfume River.  No schedule.  Birds chirping.
What will this day bring????